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"Let's hope so!"

As he spoke, Mountain Locust Daoist let out another long sigh, looking somewhat distraught. Yet he was, after all, a cultivator of many years. He quickly adjusted his state of mind, exchanged a few words with Xuantai and Yunlian, then departed on his own.

Yu Chen also found an excuse to slip away alone. Finding a secluded spot, he silently calculated the changes using the Xiangyou aura in his hand. One ancient and mysterious witch script and divine rune after another emerged upon his fingers, twisting the surrounding reality and concealing his presence, allowing him to covertly observe what he had already discovered.

With the aid of Seeing Across Space, Yu Chen could observe many secrets hidden within the void.

For example, using Xiangyou's aura, Yu Chen now discovered a concealed grotto-heaven upon the continent. Dark clouds blanketed this grotto-heaven, boundless layers of leaden-gray clouds piled atop one another and shrouding the void, making one feel oppressed at a glance.

As lightning flashed, torrential rain slanted down, scouring the surrounding land, contaminating the soil and vegetation, and converging into turbid currents like giant serpents. Only eight earthen platforms of varying hues, towering like lofty mountains, remained standing amid the downpour.

The platforms were arranged according to the Eight Trigrams. Their surfaces were carved full of runes, while jade tablets inscribed with divine names were enshrined at their centers. They radiated immeasurable brilliance, transforming into pillars of light that linked heaven and earth, like eight heavenly pillars suppressing the cosmos. They stabilized the grotto-heaven's void, suppressed the being within it, and prevented the turbid currents from fully converging.

Yet gradually, the radiance of two of the eight earthen platforms began to dim. Threads of thick, greasy miasma, gleaming with five-colored light, rose from beneath the platforms, curling around